Saints

• Eulalius the Hierarch

  Eulalius is a bishop of whom the Greek synaxarion transmits nothing but his name, his order and the manner of his end: he reposed in peace....

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  Eulampius and Eulampia

  Eulampius and Eulampia (†c. 303–311) were a brother and sister of Nicomedia, the chief martyrs of October 10. A young man seized after readi...

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  Eulogius of Alexandria

  Eulogius (died c. 607/608) was Patriarch of Alexandria for some seven-and-twenty years, one of the learned and vigorous hierarchs of the age...

• Eulogius the Hospitable

  Eulogius, called Xenodochos, "the receiver of strangers," was a stonecutter of the Thebaid in Upper Egypt who earned a single small coin a d...

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  Eumenes of Gortyna

  Eumenes (7th century) was bishop of Gortyna in Crete, venerated as a wonderworker and honoured in the Menaion as the chief saint of Septembe...

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  Euphemia the All-praised

  Euphemia the All-praised (†304) is the great-martyr of Chalcedon, a senator's daughter who suffered under the proconsul Priscus in the last...

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  Euphrasia of Nicomedia

  Euphrasia (†c. 303) was a Christian virgin of noble birth at Nicomedia, martyred in the great persecution under the emperor Maximian. Arrest...

• Euphrasius of Ionopolis

  Euphrasius is a bishop of Ionopolis commemorated by the Greek synaxaria on 17 July, of whom one sentence and one couplet survive: that he pl...

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  Euphrosyne of Alexandria

  Euphrosyne of Alexandria (5th century) was the only daughter of Paphnutius, a wealthy and devout citizen of Alexandria. Vowed to virginity b...

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  Euphrosyne of Moscow

  Eudokia Dmitrievna (c. 1353 – 1407), daughter of the grand prince of Suzdal and Nizhny Novgorod, was the wife of Dmitri Donskoy, the victor...

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  Euphrosyne of Polotsk

  Euphrosyne — Predslava in the world — was a princess of the house of Polotsk, granddaughter of the formidable Vseslav Bryachislavich, who re...

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  Euphrosyne of Suzdal

  Euphrosyne of Suzdal (1212–1250), in the world the princess Theodulia, eldest daughter of the martyred prince Michael of Chernigov, was betr...

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  Euphrosynus of Sinozersky

  Euphrosynus (mid-sixteenth century – 1612), born in Karelia and named Ephraim in the world, was a Russian hermit who withdrew into the fores...

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  Euphrosynus the Cook

  Euphrosynus the Cook (9th century) is the patron of the humble and hidden: an unlettered peasant who served as cook in a monastery kitchen,...

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  Euplus of Catania

  Euplus was a deacon of the church of Catania in Sicily who was put to death in the year 304, at the height of the persecution of Diocletian...

• Euplus the Martyr

  Euplus is a martyr of the Greek synaxarion of May 30, known from a single line which records one thing about him beyond his name: he was wra...

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  Eupraxia of Tabenna

  Eupraxia was a child of the senatorial nobility of Constantinople — daughter of Antigonus, a kinsman of the emperor Theodosius the Great — w...

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  Eupsychius of Caesarea

  Eupsychius (2nd century) was a Christian of Caesarea in Cappadocia — called in some synaxaria the son of a senator, Dionysius — who was mart...

• Eupsychius of Caesarea (under Julian)

  This Eupsychius was a young Christian of noble family in Caesarea of Cappadocia who, newly married, took part in the pulling-down of the tem...

• Euschemon of Lampsacus

  Euschemon (ninth century) was bishop of Lampsacus on the Hellespont and a confessor of the holy icons in the second iconoclast persecution....

• Eusebius and Charalampus

  Eusebius and Charalampus were two Christians of Nicomedia who refused to sacrifice to the idols and were burned alive. The Greek synaxarion...

• Eusebius of Phoenicia

  Eusebius was a Christian of Phoenicia who, in a time of persecution, came forward of his own accord to confess Christ before the persecutors...

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  Eusebius of Samosata

  Eusebius, bishop of Samosata on the Euphrates from about 361, was the strongest Nicene hierarch of the Syrian provinces in the generation of...

• Eusebius the Hermit of Syria

  Eusebius was a Syrian ascetic of the region of Antioch, remembered as one of the mountain-hermits whose lives the bishop Theodoret of Cyrrhu...

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  Eusignius of Antioch

  Eusignius was a soldier of Antioch who served sixty years in the Roman armies, saw with his own eyes the appearance of the Cross in the sky...

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  Eustathius Placidas

  Eustathius, named Placidas before his baptism, was by tradition a celebrated Roman general under Titus and Trajan who was converted while hu...

• Eustathius of Ancyra

  Eustathius was a soldier arrested at Ancyra in Galatia for confessing Christ. His passion, as the synaxaria transmit it, is short and consis...

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  Eustathius of Antioch

  Eustathius (c. 270 – c. 337) was Archbishop of Antioch and one of the chief defenders of the Nicene faith at the First Ecumenical Council of...

• Eustathius of Constantinople

  Eustathius was Patriarch of Constantinople from 1019 to 1025, in the last years of the emperor Basil II. He came to the throne of the Great...

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  Eustathius of Mtskheta

  Eustathius (†589) was a Persian by birth and a fire-worshipper by upbringing, the son of a mobed, who came as a young craftsman to Mtskheta,...

• Eustochius, Gaius and their Companions of Ancyra

  A converted pagan priest and the household of his own kinsman, put to death at Ancyra in Galatia in the last of the great persecutions. Eust...

• Eustratius the Wonderworker

  Eustratius the Wonderworker (c. 751 – c. 846) was a monastic saint of the ninth century, abbot of the Agauros Monastery on Mount Olympus of...

• Euthalia of Sicily

  Euthalia (†c. 257) was a young virgin-martyr of Leontini (Lentini) in Sicily. Her mother, Eutropia, long afflicted with an issue of blood, w...

• Euthasia

  Euthasia (died c. 305) was a virgin-martyr commemorated on January 12, of whom the synaxaria preserve only the fact of her consecrated virgi...

• Euthymios of Rhodes

  Euthymios was Metropolitan of Rhodes in the first years after the island fell to the Ottomans, having been set over the Orthodox of Rhodes w...

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  Euthymius I of Constantinople

  Euthymius was a monk of great age and greater obstinacy who was made Patriarch of Constantinople in 907, at the worst moment in the Church's...

• Euthymius of Madytos

  Euthymius was a monk of Constantinople who became bishop of Madytos on the European shore of the Hellespont in the last decades of the tenth...

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  Euthymius of Novgorod

  Euthymius II (c. 1380s – 1458), Archbishop of Novgorod from 1434 to his death, was the great builder-hierarch of the last age of the Novgoro...

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  Euthymius of Sardis

  Euthymius (c. 754 – 831) was metropolitan of Sardis in Lydia and one of the most steadfast defenders of the holy icons through the second ic...

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  Euthymius the Great

  Euthymius the Great (c. 377 – 473) is honoured by the Church as the father of lavriote monasticism in the Judaean desert — the forerunner an...

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  Euthymius the Iberian

  Euthymius the Iberian (c. 955 – 1028) was a Georgian nobleman's son given as a hostage to Byzantium, who was recovered by his monk father Jo...

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  Euthymius the New of Thessalonica

  Euthymius the New (c. 823–898), called also the Younger, was a Galatian soldier turned monk who became one of the first great ascetics of Mo...

• Euthymius, Ignatius and Acacius of Athos

  Three young monks of the Holy Mountain, formed by the same elders and following one another deliberately to death, are commemorated together...

• Eutropius, Cleonicus and Basiliscus

  Eutropius, Cleonicus and Basiliscus (†c. 308) were three martyrs of Amasea in Pontus, fellow-soldiers, kinsmen and companions of the great-m...

• Eutyches, Disciple of John the Theologian

  Eutyches is honoured on August 24 as a hieromartyr of the apostolic age: a hearer first of the Apostle John the Theologian and afterwards a...

• Eutychian and Strategius

  Eutychian and Strategius are two martyrs of whom the Greek synaxarion for August 19 has kept four things and nothing else: their names, that...

• Eutychius and Florentius of Nursia

  Eutychius and Florentius were two monks of the valley of Valcastoria near Nursia in Umbria, in the generation of St Benedict, whose story is...

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  Eutychius of Constantinople

  Eutychius (c. 512–582) was twice Patriarch of Constantinople, presiding at the Fifth Ecumenical Council (Constantinople II, 553) which conde...

• Eutychius of Melitene

  Eutychius is remembered in a single line of the synaxarion: a co-worker of the holy apostles who was bishop of Melitene in Armenia Minor and...

• Evangelos of Tomis

  Evangelos — in the Latin and Romanian sources Evangelicus — is the first bishop of Tomis whose name is preserved: the see on the western sho...